New Study Finds Strong Educational Progress Across Immigrant Generations,...

U.S. Newswire;  September 6, 2005 ;     208 words ......Advisory: New Study Finds Strong Educational Progress Across Immigrant Generations, But Is it Enough? Analysis Disputes Earlier Studies...progress for certain groups. "Educational Progress Across Immigrant Generations in California" takes an in-depth look at the education...

The Chinese in Canada: a study in ethnic change with emphasis on gender...

The Journal of Social Psychology;  February 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......existing characterizations of the immigrant adaptation process (Ward & Kennedy, 1994...First, we tried to characterize the immigrant adaptation process. On the basis of a review...division of domestic labor tasks. The Immigrant Adaptation Process Assimilationist Depictions...

Immigration's new ingredients.(COMMENTARY)

The Washington Times;  August 24, 2006 ;     591 words ......The reason I cite these findings is that none of these immigrant generations to the U.S. produced in perilous quantities bomb throwers...demurred at paying the mobs' protection money. What these immigrant generations produced in great numbers were men and women who had...

Marital timing and marital assimilation: variation and change among...

Historical Methods;  June 22, 2003 ;     700+ words ......marital timing as an indicator of immigrant adaptation. Yet whether or when immigrant groups...can shed light on the nature of immigrant adaptation, its pace, and completeness. The...Keywords: assimilation, ethnicity, immigrant adaptation, marriage, timing ********** The...

Queen of the Chinese Colony: Gender, Nation, and Belonging in Diaspora

Anthropological Quarterly;  July 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......inspired, I illustrate how ethnicity, national difference, immigrant generations, and racial background become key sites where diasporic...narratives with diasporic Chinese of different age groups and immigrant generations. I did archival research, participant observation, and...

What are we measuring? An evaluation of the CES-D across race/ethnicity...

Social Forces;  June 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......evaluation of the CES-D for use with adolescents of various immigrant generations. Previous analyses have been limited to one or two ethnic...psychometric quality of the CES-D across acculturation levels or immigrant generations within an ethnicity (Roberts, Roberts and Chen 1997...

Christian Pluralism in the United States: The Indian Immigrant Experience

The International Migration Review;  October 1, 1998 ;     567 words ......building and adaptation to life in America. Hence, models of immigrant adaptation based upon studies of older immigrant cohorts effectively...succeeds the first. What we really have is an old story of immigrant adaptation with some new twists, rather than a new story altogether...

Past immigrants also avoided English

Courier-News (Elgin, IL);  August 15, 2000 ;     417 words ......by immigrants, and most of them spoke only one language. There is also a fallacy regarding the motivation of previous immigrant generations to learn English. Most moved into areas where they would not need to learn a second language to survive. I speak not...

Grounding immigrant generations in history: Cuban Americans and their...

The International Migration Review;  October 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ...Grounding Immigrant Generations in History: Cuban Americans and Their Transnational Ties1...transnationalist," leave unanalyzed important differences in immigrant adaptation rooted in different historical generational experiences...

Educators Explore State's Contributions to Democracy

The Washington Post;  July 7, 2005 ;     233 words ......school levels a series of lectures and visits to historical sites. The discussion topics included "Indigenous Cultures and Immigrant Adaptation in the Chesapeake" as well as "Enslavement and African- American Identity in Tidewater Maryland, 1700-1860." The groups...

Binding the generations: Household formation patterns among Vietnamese...

The International Migration Review;  January 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ...Much of the analysis of refugee and immigrant adaptation has stressed the interaction of prior experience...socioeconomic side, virtually all analyses of refugee and immigrant adaptation examine the effect of such background variables...

COMING TO STAY: AN ANALYSIS OF THE U.S. CENSUS QUESTION ON IMMIGRANTS'...

Demography;  November 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......models involving immigrants. Virtually all theories of immigrant adaptation hypothesize a process of adjustment to the host society...1990, 2001). Despite its centrality to the process of immigrant adaptation, measuring the amount of host-country experience an immigrant...

The media's role in immigrant adaption: How first-year Haitians in Miami...

Journalism and Communication Monographs;  October 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ......been credited with having the most powerful effect on immigrant adaptation. However, in an environment that is often unnaturally...Miami. It does this by testing several of the theories on immigrant adaptation presented by Young Yun Kim. The findings suggest that...

Minority Nationalism and the Changing International Order

The International Migration Review;  July 1, 2003 ;     539 words ......366. $60. The process of globalization has led numerous scholars to question assimilation as the natural outcome of immigrant adaptation to a host society. The same doubts have arisen among those who study processes of state formation. In the social sciences...

Waiting on Washington

The International Migration Review;  April 1, 1997 ;     588 words ......Repaks ethnography, Waiting on Washington, joins the ranks of a growing literature that brings gender to the forefront of immigrant adaptation and settlement studies (see also Hondagneu-Sotelo's derrd Transitionsand Hagan's Deciding to Be Lega. This is an engaging...